Like, taking a step back: because Riley's work is based on ldid (from Impactor) he must open source his code upon request, and (upon a poke from me to request as such) he did (though with a bunch of awkward copyright notices that I should poke him more to fix though I'm reasonably sure that's an accident of using Xcode and he doesn't mean any of it). is that the issue? that you had to donate to him to download that build? I had to frantically spend all of November and most of December working on something for work, and was only able to sort of track what was going on from afar, but I really thought I had this one understood: I was under the impression that anyone, as of last month, could get a copy of AltStore from Riley that would let you sideload whatever you wanted (for example, unc0ver). So here's where I'm confused: did AltStore itself, as of last month, not already do this? Seriously: I'm just a bit confused, and I think I need someone to help me out on the status. (I had to do this, as the people on this thread are making it sound like a lot of effort was put into this or something hell, someone really high up in jailbreak circles texted me asking if I could learn anything from this, as if this wasn't almost exactly AltStore with some new UI.) This program, 'AltDeploy', seems to be a fork of AltServer with like three changes (something I felt the need to verify by downloading its code and carefully matching up all the files and doing diffs of what was remaining): 1) it adds some progress reporting, 2) it has a replacement UI, and 3) it takes a function designed to install AltStore to your phone and generalizes it to install any IPA instead (which, for non-developers, is not new research or new work: it is just aiming the existing general implementation and pointing it at an arbitrary IPA file instead of AltStore). OK, I'm legitimately misunderstanding something here: what, exactly, is this doing that AltStore didn't do before? Like, here's my understanding of the status as of last month: Riley-the developer of AltStore, a tool that had largely been based on ldid (the signing logic I maintain and use in Impactor)-came up with what was actually a really clever trick to do developer provisioning login after Apple's server update (a trick, very notably, that would only work for macOS, and so is fundamentally uninteresting to me, as Impactor is designed to primarily work on Windows and is supposed to work on Linux: there has always been and will always be alternatives to Cydia Impactor that work on macOS, including but not limited to Xcode itself, but the challenge is to be cross-platform).

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